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Directed by Preston Sturges

Hail the Conquering Hero

1h 41m

Directed by Preston Sturges • 1944 • United States
Starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest

Too embarrassed to admit to his family and friends that he was discharged from World War II because of hay fever, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) is befriended by a group of sympathetic soldiers who soon have everyone in his small town convinced he is a real war hero. Preston Sturges leaves no sacred cow unskewered in this uproarious send-up of wartime America’s patriotic fervor.

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